![]() It was Dalton Trumbo one of the infamous Hollywood 10 who wrote it, but it was after the award was given that that fact was discovered. That's how most people know The Brave One today when a later embarrassed Academy gave an Oscar to "Robert Rich" for Best Original Screenplay. Had Hughes still been in charge no way would The Brave One been done at his studio even with a pseudonym for a blacklisted writer. Just a couple of years earlier it was owned by Howard Hughes who got tired of it and gave it up to die a lingering death. I found it ironical that it was RKO on its last legs as a studio that produced this film. One of the best performances by a juvenile ever in the history of motion pictures and sad he did not receive any recognition for same. The bullfight scenes are outstanding and outstandingly photographed.īut a lot of this film is carried on the performance of Michel Ray who comes over so much like a real kid not just another kid actor. After that it's a tense race against time played against the background of Gitano giving his best against one of Mexico's best matadors. Young Ray is so determined to save his bull from slaughter he goes to none other than the President of Mexico to gain pardon for his bull. Young Michel Ray is the boy Miguel and his father is Mexican film star Rodolfo Hoyos who did a few film appearances north of the Mexican border. All I saw is a touching film from RKO set in Mexico with no major or even minor American stars in it about a young boy who wants to save his beloved pet, a bull named Gitano who is raised as a fighting bull which means he gets one appearance only in the arena to die at the hands of a matador. I'll leave it to the professional communist hunters to sniff out any left wing Marxist propaganda in The Brave One. With Dalton Trumbo's struggle now a subject of a major motion picture a new and hopefully more enlightened audience can appreciate this wonderful film. Reviewed by bkoganbing 9 / 10 The Brave GitanoĪn excellent picture The Brave One has come down in history as an example of the incredible stupidity and hypocrisy of the blacklist. Based on a true incident, the film earned a "best story" Academy Award for one Robert Rich-who, much to the embarrassment of the Academy (and the delight of civil libertarians), turned out to be blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo.-alfiehitchie ![]() ![]() Moved by the boy's plight, the President of Mexico signs a "pardon" for Gitano-but not soon enough to prevent the bull's appearance at the Plaze de Mexico at Mexico City, where he faces top matador Fermin Rivera. The friendship between bull and boy is threatened when Gitano's legal owners claim the animal and ship him off to the bullring. A Mexican boy, Michael Ray, "adopts" Gitano after saving the animal's life during a storm. The Brave One is a bull named Gitano (Gypsy).
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